Combine hosts

Combining pure IPv4 hosts and IPv6 hosts

Last adaption: 06.2022

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This article refers to a Beta version

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General
Some hosts still have the type "A" or "AAAA", which means that the host only has one IPv4 (A) or one IPv6 (AAAA) address. Newer hosts are automatically created as type "A-AAAA" and both IP address types can therefore be stored. It is possible to combine hosts so that two hosts with the same host name are merged into one.


Select host
The host to be combined can be selected under Host Manage hosts. For this purpose, two hosts must have the same host name, as shown on the right. The type is "A" for one host and "AAAA" for the other. One of the two hosts is then opened for editing by clicking on the gear wheel.			Select host


Edit host
This opens the dialog for editing the host with the special feature that the following question appears at the top: Combine host?			Combine host?
Yes	Opens the dialog for combining the hosts
No	Closes the dialog window and the host can be edited as usual. The next time the host is opened for editing, the dialog window appears again.


Convert host
There are also two update tokens for the two hosts and you can now select which of the two update tokens should apply in future.			Convert host - Select update token
Update-Token	IPv4 (A Record)	The update token of the IPv4 host applies to the combined host
	IPv6 (AAAA Record)	The update token of the IPv6 host applies to the combined host
Host umwandeln bestätigen		Schließt den Vorgang des Umwandelns ab


Change successful
The successful conversion to a combined host is confirmed with the message shown on the right.			Change successful

General

Select host

Edit host

Convert host

Change successful